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Show BELIEVES WEST HIS EL DORADO Basque Youths Take Turns to Come to America and Grow Rich ni:v l'ORK, Oct. 25. (Special Correspondence ) When Kram !.s A. Itugg. but lately a "Y ' worker in l,xrance for two long years allowed himself an Interval of wandering In the Krench and Spanish countries on I his release, he found that they wore more closely related to his homeland jthan he knew. "One dav," ho relates in a pk-turcs-qiir article In the November Centura Magazin. "I spoke to a young man of thirty, whose dress proclaimed" ih.i'. ihe came from the outside world In response to a comment of mine in rench. he answered in English. Ten or more years ago he left home for our western slates to act as shepherd. Finally, he succeeded in acquiring a 'flock of his own and now with his suvlngs of fifty thousand francs had i returned to th" land of his youth I "In his own neighborhood nearl every home had a representative in California.- ! It 6eems that there is what almost amounts to a regular system. The writer says he found that: "The young men go away at the age of seventeen, 'and return some dozen years or so llaH-r v ah a comfortable little fortune I acquired In sheep-ralslng. Whenever one returns, another leaves for America Amer-ica In his place The nouveau riehe pays off the family debts and sets up a well furnished home of his own with many of the comforts of modern times. KNOWN l OTAH Montana knows the skillful Husviue shepherd, as well as California, and ;-u do Wyoming. New Mexico. Oregon, and l-'tuh Doubtless the sheepherding system of the ample country Is ven i-trangc at first to these sons of a tiny, mountainous land, but, says the writer: "The Basque emigrant drifts naturally natur-ally Into the sheep Industry of our western ranges, for the mountainous district of his own country' is truly a land of green pastures. The sheep are driven to the hills in March, to rsmaifl until October. Twice during the I on they are brought back for the shearing. Some owners have as man) an a thousand head. Young cattle are also taken to the summer feeding grounds, the surplus stork being sold In the autumn .because of the shortage short-age of winter forage crops. Pasturage Is free for members of the commune but even to outsiders the price is only five or six sous per head for the season. Kural occupations have a dignity of their own In this pastoral country The line of the national song of the Basque ring as true toda a-n a-n In ii h. wire urlti- n centuries ago, proclaim ins: 'For noble on our mountains is he who yokes the ox. And equal to a monarch, the shepherd shep-herd of the flocks. M N -. FARMS "Aside from the sheep Industry, with its valuable proilui is of wool atid cheese, the Psya Basque is a country lof small farms, raising Just sufficient crops for home consumption Ther;' Jar apple sometime shipped to 'Normandy for cider ma king -pears. peaches, apricots, cherries, chestnuts, walnute grapes, hay, corn, and wheal 't.i abundance Along the seacoast, fishins L still xi favorite on upatlon " and a paragraph1 considerably further on connects American fisheries, as well as the I American sheep Industry, with the! Basque! country ''For centuries" Mr ' ltug,j says. ' the Basques have bec-n a sturdy fishing people. Their seafaring men are famous Among the coa-st of Newfoundland, and In even more dls-' 1 tant centers of this industry, many of ! the fishermen are of Basque origin." oo |